Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	run_v	young_a	youth_n	15	3	7.8084	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88518	Daphnis and Chloe. A most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies. / By Geo: Thornley, Gent.; Daphnis and Chloe. English	Longus.; Thornley, George, b. 1614.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1657 (1657)	Wing L3003; Thomason E1652_3; ESTC R202777	67,756	245

them to the Land as if he had driven a falcked Chariot Now an Ox or Cowe swims so well that no man can do the like and they are exceeded only by Water-fowl and Fish nor do they ever drown and perish unlesse the nails upon their hooves be thorough drencht with wet and fall Witnesse to this Those several places of the Sea to this day called the Bosphori The Trajects or the narrow Seas swom over by Oxen. And thus poor Daphnis was preserved escaping beyond hope two dangers at once shipwrack and latrociny When he was out he found Chloe laughing and crying and casting himself into her arms askt her what she meant when she piped and whistled so loud Then she told him all that had happened how she scutled up to Dorco how the Cowes had been accustomed how she was bidden to play on the pipe and that their friend Dorco was dead onely for shame she told him not of that Kisse They thought then it was their duty to honour their great benefactor who so highly had obliged them and therefore they lamented and buried the unfortunate Dorco with all the Rites and Ceremonies of the ancient Shepherds By the name Dorco thrice they call'd upon his Ghost then laid good store of Earth upon the Coarse On his Grave they set abundance of the most fragant lasting sative plants and flowers and vowed an Anniversary suspension to him of some of the first fruits of the year Besides they poured on the ground a libation of milk and pressed with their hands the fairest bunches of the grapes and then with eyes cast on the ground broke many Shepherds pipes o're him There were heard miserable groans and bellowings of the Cowes and Oxen and together with them certain incomposed cursations and freques were seen The Cattel of the Herd amongst themselves as well as the Goat-herds and the Shepherds had a kind of lamentation for the death and losse of their keeper When the Funeral of Dorco was done Chloe brought Daphnis to the Cave of the Nymphs and washed him stark naked with her own hands and she her self Daphnis then first of all looking and gazing on her washed her naked limbs before him her limbs which for their perfect and most excellent beauty needed neither wash nor dresse and when they had done they gathered flowers to crown the Statues of the Nymphs and hang'd up Dorco's charming pipe for an Anathema in the phane Then coming away they looked what became of their Sheep and Goats and found that they neither fed nor blated but were all laid upon the ground as wanting Daphnis and Chloe that had been so long out of their sight When they saw this and had call'd and whistled as they were wont they rose up presently and fell to feed and the mantling Goats skipt and leapt as rejoycing at the safety of their familiar Goat-herd But Daphnis for his life could not be merry because he had seen Chloe naked and that Venus of her beauty which before was not unvailed His heart was gnawed as with a secret poyson and had deep sentiments of grief and anguish insomuch that sometimes he puffed and blowed thick and short as if some body had been in a close pursuit of him sometimes again he breathed so faintly as if he had been quite spent in running That washing seemed to him more dangerous and formidable then the Sea And he thought his life was still in the hands and at the dispose of the Tyrian Pyrats as being but a young Rustick and yet unskill'd in the Assassinations and Robberies of Love The End of the First Book A Summary of the Second Book THe Vintage is kept and solemnized After that Daphnis and Chloe return to the fields Philetas the Herdsman entertains them with a discourse of Cupid and Love Love increases betwixt them In the mean time the young men of Methymne come into the Fields of Mitylene to hawk and hunt Their Pinnace having lost her Cable they fasten her to the shore with a with A Goat gnawes the with in pieces The Ship with her Money and other riches as blown off to Sea The Methymnaeans madded at it look about for him that did it they light upon Daphnis and pay him soundly The Countrey Lads come in to help him Philetas is constituted Judge A Methymnaean is Plaintiffe Daphnis Defendant Daphnis carries the day The Methymnaeans fall to force but are beaten off with Clubs Getting home they complain of injury and losse by the Mytelenians The Methymnaeans presently command Bryaxis their Generall to move with 10. Ships against the Mytelenians knowing nothing They land at the fields plunder all they can lay their hands on and carry away Chloe Daphnis knowing it would dye but the Nymphs comfort him Pan sends a Terrour which is rarely described upon the Methymnaeans and warns their Captain in his sleep to bring back Chloe The Captain obeyes and she returns joyfull to Daphnis They keep Holy-dayes to Pan and Philetas is there Lamo tells the Story of the Pipe Philetas gives Daphnis his most artificial Pipe Daphnis and Chloe proceed to the binding of one another by amorous Oaths Daphnis and Chloe The Second Book THe Autumn now being grown to its height and the Vintage at hand every ruralr began to stirre and be busie in the fields some to repair the Winepresses some to scowr the tuns and hogs-heads others were making baskets skeps and panniers and others providing little hooks to catch and out the bunches of the grapes Here one was looking busily about to find a stone that would serve him to bruise the stones of grapes there another furnishing himself with a stang of very dry and smooth wood to carry away the must in the night with light before him Wherefore Daphnis and Chloe for this time laid aside the care of the flocks and put their helping hands to the work Daphnis in his basket carried grapes cast them into the presse and trod them there and then anon out of the Lake tunn'd the Wine into the Butts Chloe drest meat for the Vintagers and served them with drink the old wine dasht with Fountain-water and when she had done gathered grapes of the lower vines For all the vines about Lesbos incline themselves and protend their palmits towards the ground and creep like the Ivie so that indeed a very Infant if that his hands be loose from his Swathes may easily reach and pull a bunch Now as they were wont in the Feast of Bacchus and the solemnization of the Genethliacs of wine the women that came from the neighbouring fields to help cast their eyes all upon Daphnis gave him prick and praise for beauty and said he was like to Bacchus himself And now and then one of the bolder strapping girles would catch him in her arms and kisse him Those wanton praises and expressions did animate the modest Youth and more and more inflame him still but vext and grieved the poor Chloe But those that were treading

Daphnis Chloe Printed for John Garfeild 1657. Cross facit Daphnis and Chloe A Most Sweet and Pleasant Pastorall ROMANCE for Young Ladies By Geo Thornley Gent. Humili Casâ nihil antiquius nihil nobilius Sen. Philos. The Printing Press for Pictures London Printed for John Garfeild at the Sign of the Rolling-Presse for Pictures near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill over against Popes-Head-Alley 1657. To young Beauties THis little pleasant Laundschip of Love by its own destiny and mine belongs most properly to your fair eyes and hands and happier laps And them who would not lay his legge over a book although that sometimes has been the complaint of a Schollar's solitude But hold There is nothing here to that purpose but what Lycaenium taught her Schollar in the Wood Here Cupid is a Shepherd Pan a Souldier Chloe a maid of whom Love would write a storie a Youth the Darling of the Nymphs Love catcht robbing an Orchard and his own Herald from a Myrtle Grove Here are Pipes that drown Pirats others reduceing a Captive maid pastorall Festivalls and Games The ceremonies customes and manners of the ancient Greekes with a delightfull interspersion of their old and sweet Tales And in short nothing to vex you unlesse perchance in your own conscience Chloe knew well enough though the Author makes her simple what and where her Fancie was and Daphnis too needed not Lycaenium's Lanthorn to a plakit or to follow Will with the wispe But hark you Lady and I will tell you a storie one I had at a Tavern vesper a Dialogue from a Summer shade A boy and a Girle were gott thither together The boy opened his shop and drew out all a yong beginner had to show The Girle askt him what it was The boy said It was his purse the Girle lookt upon her selfe And if that be thy purse Then quoth she my purse is cutt And these are parallells to the simple ruralls here But what say you to that Tradition of the Hebrewes That a very wise man knew not the way of a Serpent upon a Rock nor of a yong man with a maid And those that say Nicaula Sabaea had like to have puzzled him quite with Boyes and Girles in the same dresse but that he made them wash before him and found out as you do all the Boyes by a stronger kind of rubbing But besides It is so like your owne either simplicitie or Art you cannot but approve it here You do not know what we meane when we speak as plain as day And now you have an Author too which you never had before to prove you do not counterfeit The sophist in his third book a man of great Authoritie a Magistrate among the maids For this I have deserved a kisse of every sweet ingenious Girle and if I find that this book lyes nearer to you then the other Romances do those of the affected twirling tongue I shall trie either to find or ideate somewhat for you that for its various invention intertexture and the style shall be composed examin'd and sent to your hands by the test of Musick beautie Pleasure and Love Your loving Servant Geo. Thornley To the Criticall Reader THe Pastorals of Longus Sophista to my knowledge have bin signed with the Youthful Emeralds of some of our own most excellent sparky astrall Wits But Those have kept within their own Ingenious quiet Cortina and have not come abroad by their Pens and therefore I shall give you Testimonies to the Drama in hand as from the Laureats of other Countreys Angelus Politian an Eloquent Italian in his Books of Miscellanies Quatuor sayes he extant Graecè nimis quàm Libelli elegantes Poemenic●n Titulo There are extant in the Greek four very spruce Books under the Title of Poemenica and I am sure he meant These for That 's the Title to the Four and there are no other Extant Other Erotic Writers indeed there are Aristinaetus Achilles Tatius Heliodorus Eustathius or Eumathius as others call him but not under that Title Longi liber lectu Dignissimus and again Dulcissimus ac S●avissimus Scriptor is the language Maretus gives him Longus his Book is very well worth the reading A most sweet and pleasant Writer And now for him speaks the Tripos of the World so the Criticks call their Joseph Staliger and indeed in my Judgment he has hit him to a hair Auctor est Amaenissimus et Character eò melior quo Simplictor He is an Author pleasant as the Spring pleasant as Groves Launs Hills Vales Eccho's soft winds and his style or Character so much the better by how much the more Simple and rurall Heinsius too gives him the Venus Longo Sophist â Nil Venustius And besides These the Patriarch Photias very well might be cited hither too to the Assertion of the Book where he speaks of the Greek Erotic Writers though but to the generall and gives a breviary of Antonius Diogenes his book Of the Wonderful Incredible Things beyond Thule and tells us that That book was the Fountain of all Writings of this kind but I had rather if an Ingenuous man when he has satisfied himself may speak what he thinks of his own Work close up this discourse with our Authors own words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I drew up these four Books A Perpetuall Oblation to Love An Everlasting Anathema Sacred to Pan and the Nymphs and A Delightfull Possession even for all But here comes a Snapdragon Objection from a Poetaster in the way and he would spoil our Poetry as Prophetasters do Theologie These Books sayes he are handsome in the Greek but in our Saxon make the best it cannot be Our Pastorall Doricque Sir has shewn it self in verse and prose fine as Arcadian Holy-dayes But there is another still To imagine Children exposed the very basis of the book is not at all for this Age an Age wiser far then that It may be so For Aesculapius had alwayes a great beard though his Father Apollo never had any Did you never leave any your self to Saint Antholin's or Greggs Then read the Stories of the East and South and you shall find many Children both exposed and Fortunate This enough to face the Cuffs of this Book and make me laugh in my sleeve if any man require more Yours to serve you Geo Thornley Upon the most Ancient and Elegant Poëm of Daphnis and Chlcë accurately and deliciously rendred by his Learned Friend Mr. George Thornly To the READER AS flesh and Fish and Plants thy Body feed Gentle sweet Reader so thy Mind has need With Speakings Writings Printings to be fed And fresh-suggested Notions nourished And as our Rabbies of severest brow Not only food to keep thee live allow But to delight thee many daintie dishes Of Flesh and Fruit of Pasterall and Fishes By Art compos'd So that thou have t is fit Custards Tarts Puf-pasts Florentines of wit For to refresh the Palate of thy mind And to divert